Re: pattern matching question

["arno." <arno.@no-log.org>]

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Le Wednesday 11 October 2006, à 14:29:06PM +0100, Peter a écrit :
> Frank Terbeck wrote:
> > list=("... one giraffe ..." "... two cows ..." "... one monkey ..." "... thre
> > e lemmings ...")
> > slist=(${(M)list:#*one [a-z]*})
>
> To get the exact effect arno wants, you need an additional substitution
> to remove the extra stuff, which brings it back to his original
> proposal.  I'd probably just do the simple
>
> slist=(${${${(M)list:#*one [a-z]*}##*one }%% *})

Thanks to you and frank for your answers, that works fine.

>
> I can't offhand think of a way of both matching the one and extracting
> the following word in one go.  In practice it's unlikely to make a
> noticeable difference unless you're really doing this a great deal---and
> if speed's that important it's probably time to switch to a more
> optimized scripting language.

I don't really need that much speed, I was just wondering if was
possible to match and extract in one go. Anyway, using another language
is not an option here: I'm trying to write a completion function.

arno

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